Once upon a time there was a terrific, charming, funny film about the Middle Ages with contemporary dialogue. But this review is not about that film, which starred Bing Crosby. This film about the Middle Ages is neither terrific nor particularly funny...

Your Highness, David Gordon Green's gratuitous, inventive, and thoroughly outlandish take on Tolkien lore, will undoubtedly be labeled as a parody of fantasy films such as The Princess Bride and Ron Howard's Willow.

In "Your Highness," an exhaustingly pushy, phallocentric and witlessly smutty spoof of early '80s medieval fantasies such as "Krull" and "The Beastmaster," McBride plays the weed-smoking younger brother of a heroic Galahad figure portrayed...

Once upon a time there was a terrific, charming, funny film about the Middle Ages with contemporary dialogue. But this review is not about that film, which starred Bing Crosby. This film about the Middle Ages is neither terrific nor particularly funny...

Your Highness, David Gordon Green's gratuitous, inventive, and thoroughly outlandish take on Tolkien lore, will undoubtedly be labeled as a parody of fantasy films such as The Princess Bride and Ron Howard's Willow.

In "Your Highness," an exhaustingly pushy, phallocentric and witlessly smutty spoof of early '80s medieval fantasies such as "Krull" and "The Beastmaster," McBride plays the weed-smoking younger brother of a heroic Galahad figure portrayed...

James Franco and Natalie Portman let down their Oscar-coifed hairdos to get their Camelot on! Alongside the scene-stealing Danny McBride, they venture forth on a hilarious adventure that's as dirty as the dung our heroes trudge on.

Not nearly as terrible as I thought it would be, Your Highness is still a relative dud when it comes to comedy. I laughed at some moments and even laughed a little louder at an absurd drawing about midway through...

The makers of "Your Highness" would have done well to keep that in mind. The idea of Danny McBride, James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman getting together for a raunchy send-up of medieval quest movies sounds great on paper.

That's also where we can most appreciate his admirable rejection of limitations. Having just earned an Oscar nod for his intense work in "127 Hours," he tackles the juvenile lunacy of "Your Highness" with equal commitment.

The comic mojo of Danny McBride can be a thing of fucked-up beauty. See him in The Foot Fist Way or HBO's Eastbound & Down. Or watch him achieve stoner nirvana with director David Gordon Green in Pineapple Express.

Let's talk about characters in film, the stereotypical cookie cut-outs which all make a film familiar and some to relate to. And then comes the antagonist, the evil doer that foils all good in the world. Then comes the people in between.

At the Chateau Marmont bar a couple of years ago, I couldn’t help eavesdropping on two development guys. It was late, they were loud and I don’t know what they were smoking, but the air sure smelled skunky. Surely, they jested?

If you’ve not seen that red-band trailer for Your Highness, then, yes, this is a fantasy movie from the guys who brought you Pineapple Express and TV’s Eastbound And Down. Please take a moment and imagine all that that entails.